Re: Comments on Debian packages and installation
Raul Miller:
> Kristoffer.Rose@ENS-Lyon.FR <Kristoffer.Rose@ENS-Lyon.FR> wrote:
> > If all packages that "Suggests:" hugs should explicitly name
> > "non-free/hugs" then they will have to change when hugs moves.
>
> Oh, I thought you were talking about "Enhances:".
>
> Yes, I agree, Suggests: of the form "non-free/foo" (where foo
> is a meta-syntactic variable) is a bad idea.
"Enhances:" has the same problem because it is "non-local" (as someone
already remarked). In a nutshell: the maintainer of "zip" has to keep
track of all the packages that are enhanced by "zip" ... that is all the
packages that today "Suggests:" zip.
Cheers,
Kristoffer
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